I don’t think that would be a good idea. Instead, I would support there being an “EA controversy” tag that people can filter out. For example, as soon as the”FTX collapse” tag was made I filtered out all FTX posts and have continued to do so. I know users can make tags but something like a unified controversy tag would be a big enough change that I think forum moderators should decide if it’s worthwhile.
I think that having to actively filter out controversy is the sort of trivial inconvenience that would lead to many people just not using the forum while there’s a controversy on (or, use the forum ever, if this is the new normal).
I think one thing that would be helpful is making it more obvious how to do this, or more broadly that it’s even possible. I did eventually find out how to do this, but it took some clicking and I wouldn’t have looked for it if I hadn’t seen comments saying it was possible.
Some ideas:
When you donwvote a post, show a box saying “Want to see fewer posts like this? Click here to change the visibility of the tags on this post”
If a post is controversial (lots of both upvotes and downvotes) or has lots of controversial comments (mixed karma of either or both kinds), then offer a similar box at the top of the post.
I don’t think that would be a good idea. Instead, I would support there being an “EA controversy” tag that people can filter out. For example, as soon as the”FTX collapse” tag was made I filtered out all FTX posts and have continued to do so. I know users can make tags but something like a unified controversy tag would be a big enough change that I think forum moderators should decide if it’s worthwhile.
I think that having to actively filter out controversy is the sort of trivial inconvenience that would lead to many people just not using the forum while there’s a controversy on (or, use the forum ever, if this is the new normal).
I think one thing that would be helpful is making it more obvious how to do this, or more broadly that it’s even possible. I did eventually find out how to do this, but it took some clicking and I wouldn’t have looked for it if I hadn’t seen comments saying it was possible.
Some ideas:
When you donwvote a post, show a box saying “Want to see fewer posts like this? Click here to change the visibility of the tags on this post”
If a post is controversial (lots of both upvotes and downvotes) or has lots of controversial comments (mixed karma of either or both kinds), then offer a similar box at the top of the post.